September 2021 – Page 2

See brilliant planet Venus encounter a slender Moon

7 September 2021 Mark Armstrong

Don’t mission your chance to see Venus and a slender Moon, the two brightest objects in the night sky, come together for a few days this week.

Hubble images a colourful globular cluster in Sagittarius

6 September 2021 Astronomy Now

M22, M13, Omega Centauri and other densely-populated globular clusters get most of the attention, but even sparsely-populated globulars provide rich fodder for the Hubble Space Telescope.

After an initial failure, Perseverance collects Martian rock sample

6 September 2021 Astronomy Now

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully captured its first rock sample from the floor of Jezero Crater after an initial failure.